Ancient Near Eastern Art

In the Ancient Near Eastern Art you can find different collections. For instance the first objects from the ancient Near East to enter the Metropolitan's collection—cuneiform tablets and stamp and cylinder seals—were acquired in the late nineteenth century. The department's collection has been acquired by gift, by purchase, and by participation in archaeological excavations at, for example, Nippur, Nimrud, and Ctesiphon in Iraq and at Hasanlu, Yarim Tepe, and Qasr-i Abu Nasr in Iran.

American Arts

The collection of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum extends in date from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century and includes approximately 12,000 examples of furniture, silver, glass, pewter, ceramics, and textiles. Today the collection are objects made on American soil from the early colonial period, reflecting the settlers' keen desire to reproduce as faithfully as possible the material world they had left behind in England, Holland, and other homelands.
The Metropolitan's Department of American Decorative Arts was established in 1934, splitting off from a more generalized department of decorative arts, and the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture followed fourteen years later. for more info www.metmuseum.org